“A new Apple Store proposed for Federation Square has been labelled a ‘Pizza Hut pagoda’ as the Melbourne City Council voted to step up pressure for a redesign,” James Hancock reports for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“The Victorian Government approved demolition of the Yarra building closest to the river in December last year to make way for the two storey concept store,” Hancock reports. “Tuesday night’s city council meeting heard the proposal has overwhelmingly been rejected by the community, with the council receiving about 800 submissions rejecting the design.”
“Councillors unanimously backed a motion by Greens Councillor Rohan Leppert to lobby the Government for a new design for the store and public consultation,” Hancock reports. “Councillor Nicholas Reece believes with the right design, an Apple Store could actually improve the square. ‘Provided it’s done in the right way it could be a good thing for Federation Square,’ Cr Reece said. But he said he had not found anyone who liked the design.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Looks more like a glass hamburger to us.
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Apple reveals plans for Apple Federation Square flagship store in Melbourne, Australia – December 20, 2017
The Apple building doesn’t fit in, that’s for sure. Everything else looks like an Eric Own Moss wannabe.
Didn’t realize those Aussie ate pizza. Only shrimp on the barbie…
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They call them prawns, not shrimp.
Going to be a huge benefit to the the Square. The existing design of the area – which will remain largely unchanged – looks like an ugly failure to replicate the Borg planet from Star Trek.
Looks Japanese inspired which is appropriate given Australia’s geographic location. Also, seems to accommodate against some of the extremely hot weather the city gets over summer.
Looking forword to visiting the new store when compete, and the great city of Melbourne!
Totally weird that someone else can use a registered handle, not that I’m complaining, it’s just, well weird.
It has been that way since MDN introduced “registered users.” To this day, the value of being a registered MDN user is still unclear to me, other than my name being displayed in blue.
You do have a point there. At any rate the confusion over our mutual handles will no doubt make coming here extra fun.
You definitely got a point. At any rate it’s going to be fun to see what happens with two nearly identical handles.
OKAY!!!
Enough! Both of you!
Don’t give Botty any ideas huh!?
You should consider it an honor.
Yes a Certain irony looking at those other buildings, Apples might be a little uninspiring but wow it would be surrounded by true ugliness and worse still ugliness that will date terribly too. I have a great love for Australians but good taste isn’t one of their renown qualities outside of sport anyway.
Not sure where you get that Australia has no reputation for good taste.
Google the Sydney Opera House and you’ll see an incredible work of modern architecture, respected world wide. Australia was very involved in the early growth of modern architecture.
Personally I think apple’s design is beautiful. JMHO
Designed by a Danish architect
We only like Norwegian architects here in merica…
oh…and vegimite.
Oh, I dunno. Vegemite isn’t *too* bad (but then again I grew up eating Marmite, so…) 😉
Listening to a radio interview with one of the councillors on Monday, it’s clear that the biggest issue with the store isn’t so much the store itself but the process Apple used to get it rubber stamped.
Apple managed to circumvent a great number of normal planning procedures and oversight to stake its claim on Federation Square, which may not have been the best way of going about things given the community nature of Federation Square and the broader expectation that the public is consulted when the future of Federation Square is up for discussion.
I think that the store will ultimately find its niche within the weird but loveable mish-mash that is Fed Square. If Apple brought the community along with it in this case, most of the controversy would have been avoided.
They actually approved the buildings that are already there?? They look like some wrinkled up camouflage uniform waiting to go in the wash.
If you remove the “Pagoda” part you have a glass cube that’ll get dangerously hot. If you make it look like the other buildings in the area, which look like they were committee designed by committee, you lose the opportunity to have something unique and refreshing that draws visitors. If Apple pushes the design they lose in the court of public opinion. If they give in everyone else will want to design their own Apple building. Any reason they have to build there?
Someone at Apple has been lusting after the Stahl House and Mid Century Modern Architecture- only in a more sever and soulless style.
Correction – “which look like they were designed by committee”
I’m sure one of their neighboring cities would love to have an Apple Pizza Hut. 😉
Ah, the nearest “neighboring” city of any worth – Adelaide (pop. 1.2M) – is over 700km away. Australia is a big place with not much population.
Sydney – over 800km away – already has the original Australian flagship store.
So neighborhood rivalry is not going to push this one along.
Reminiscent of a cliche cliff house in Malibu.
Wait a minute … maybe it IS a new Pizza Hut, and the doggone Aussies just got the names on the applications mixed up.
Melbourne’s hipsters wouldn’t know taste if hit them between their black rimmed glasses trimmed beards slicked hair Killers t-shirt stove pipe jeans whilst declaring fuck you to any capitalist endeavours like Apple…all the time whilst posting it onto Insta via their iPhone.